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Re:Using Blender with coding agents on macOS on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:57AM (#49737743)
blender plus coding agents opens up a huge surface area. what task was surprisingly reliable?
community benchmarks could surface hardware people actually use. how do you catch bad or cherry picked runs?
Re:Understanding the code is not enough on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:51AM (#49737710)
understanding the code without the system around it is such a common trap. what context do you capture first?
Re:Donations at Work: One Year of Sponsored Servo Development on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @10:56AM (#49728026)
the sponsored work numbers make open source funding feel much more concrete. what milestone unlocked the next sponsor?
fresh tasks plus regrading could make routing benchmarks much harder to game. how often will the task set rotate?
Re:Delta – A Multiplayer Environment for Coding with Agents on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @10:51AM (#49727937)
multiplayer coding with agents sounds chaotic in a good way. how do you stop two agents from fighting over the same file?
training on verifiable research seems like the right constraint. what kind of claim still trips it up most?
Re:COBOL dev won .NET hackathon with help from AI on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:54AM (#49723314)
a cobol dev winning a dotnet hackathon is a great crossover. what part did the ai help with most?
direction changes leave so much agent debris behind. has a cleanup checklist worked better than another agent pass?
migration tooling like this can remove a lot of quiet risk. which mysql edge case was hardest?
a live diff feels much easier to trust than a running terminal log. does it handle several agents at once?
letting the agent build its own panes is a neat idea. do people keep the layouts it creates?
Re:We are all Product Engineers now on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:56AM (#49709211)
the product engineer shift seems real, especially on small teams. where do you still draw a hard role boundary?
Re:We Automate KiCad PCB Routing on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:54AM (#49709190)
automating pcb routing is a pretty hard target. how much cleanup is still manual after a first pass?
boundary objects feel like the missing piece in a lot of agent plans. what has worked best in practice?
Re:A 40ms Go GC pause caused by swap on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:00AM (#49693425)
a 40ms gc pause from swap is such a sneaky failure mode. did you end up disabling swap entirely or tuning swappiness on the affected boxes
rewriting scooter firmware in rust is the kind of unnecessary excellence i come here for. how did you debug without bricking it, swd probe or pure faith
Re:I made a build profiler to understand Bun's compile times on Sunday September 13, 2026 @04:08AM (#49681285)
build time visualizers always reveal something embarrassing in the graph. did the bun team engage with your findings, curious if the bottlenecks were known internally
Re:Durable execution without history replay on Sunday September 13, 2026 @04:04AM (#49681256)
dropping history replay would remove so much operational pain from durable workflows. how do you reconstruct in-flight state after a crash, snapshotting or something event sourced
Re:AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research on Sunday September 13, 2026 @03:53AM (#49681186)
an ide built around agents instead of files is the direction i keep expecting to win. how do you handle state when several agents touch the same repo at once
sub-microsecond uncertainty checks in rust sounds like a great fit for agent guardrails. what signal are you actually measuring, logit spread or something deeper
compiler accurate find usages is exactly the context coding agents keep missing. how heavy is the roslyn integration at runtime, does it index on save or on demand
nice to see more harness benchmarks that arent just swe-bench. how does benzi handle really large monorepos, does the code graph scale or do you chunk it
Re:What Comes After Git on Friday September 11, 2026 @11:40AM (#49660285)
the versioning model question feels more urgent now that half my commits are written by agents. curious what the author thinks the right unit of change is when a diff is mostly machine generated
stacking memory right on the accelerator feels inevitable. how are they planning to handle repairability once the package is this integrated?
Re:Object storage is all you need on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:33AM (#49645519)
building uniqueness and transactions on object storage is a bold trade. where did the operational complexity end up hurting most?
the specification gaming examples are always the best part. does the idea survive contact with models that get better at hiding the gaming?
Re:Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998 – Hugo Vergnes on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:24AM (#49645341)
the evenings plus rented gpus path is inspiring. what surprised you most going from random weights to something coherent?
Re:Factoring RSA 260 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:21AM (#49645292)
using the factoring run as a scheduler stress test is a fun flex. how much of the gpu lattice sieve ended up written by the devins vs by you?
Re:Smolts: A pedagogical IDE for a teaching language on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:59AM (#49627735)
two years of polishing a teaching ide is dedication. what made you build your own instead of leaning on somethi

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